To learn more about Amazon’s fees, click here. Before you source your books, calculate the potential profit margins for every potential product. Remember, books aren’t much different than any other product. FBA fulfillment fees (Depending on weight and size, can range from $2.16 to $5.68 per unit).Referral fees (Amazon charges a 15% referral fee + $1.80 closing fee per book).What selling plan are you using? (Individual plan $0.99 per unit sold or Professional plan $39.99 per month).
To calculate the estimated profits, you’ll need to determine a couple of things: Books can be extremely profitable like other products, but it will be determined by the cost to source your products, the selling price, the demand, and fulfillment fees. Like any other product, our answer is: it depends. Is Selling Books on Amazon Profitable?Īnother common question we get about selling books on Amazon is, how much does it cost, and is it profitable to sell books on Amazon? Books aren’t going anywhere any time soon, and they can provide sellers a new avenue of sales and profits if done correctly.
While the world moves towards digital screens rather than physical books (see Amazon’s Kindle series), books are still in demand. But as Bezos mentioned, books provide an endless field of profitable, high-demand products. You have to have an Amazon Seller Central account, you have to source your books, list your products on Amazon, and find a way to ship your books once you make a sale. Like other products and business models, selling books on Amazon requires similar steps. Why Do People Sell Books on Amazon?Ī common question we often see from sellers is, why should I even bother selling books on Amazon? Well, if you already sell other products on Amazon, selling books is not much different! In some ways, sourcing and selling books on Amazon can be even more profitable than other products. In this blog, we’ll be discussing how you can start selling books on Amazon and build your Amazon business like Bezos. Now almost 30 years later, books continue to be one of Amazon’s top products, accounting for almost 10% of Amazon’s revenue.īooks are still one of the major products within Amazon’s marketplaces and bring a diverse inventory of profitable products for Amazon third-party sellers to take advantage of. By starting with books, he created a diverse collection of desired goods to start his empire. Bezos explained that there are more types of books than there are product categories. Books are the most diverse product in the world, every culture has its own set of scripts with endless genres, authors, and stories. When asked why he would start his company with books, his answer was simple: diversity. In 1994, a young Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, started his multibillion-dollar company starting with a single product: books.
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